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Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
Following a week of controversy surrounding the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) announcement of a 25 basis point hike in the country's official cash rate, this week will give financial markets more variables to digest as the Federal Treasury delivers ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) finally put to rest market speculation over monetary policy by raising the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a five year high of 5.75 per cent. The RBA last lifted interest rates in March 2005. Market expectations ...

More Australians feel financially secure

... Report has found that 62.1 per cent of Australians are feeling financially secure, an improvement from the 43.5 per cent figure in 2005. Ipac's chief executive officer Peeyush Gupta said the survey respondents felt financially secure because they had ...

Babcock & Brown swells infrastructure by $3.4bn

... will receive a higher-than-planned half-year distribution of no less than 6.75 cents per stapled security. This likely figure is 22.7 per cent better than the distribution over the same half year back in 2005. BBI pointed out that the sum is expected ...

Daily economic update

Australian headline consumer prices rose by a slightly higher-than-expected 0.9 per cent in the March quarter taking the annual inflation rate to 3 per cent - right at the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's 2-3 per cent target band. Financial ...

30 million super accounts and climbing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
Despite super fund consolidation and apparent increasing market competition, Australian superannuation leaders have yet to confront why the number of super fund accounts is still climbing by more than one million each year. According to the just released ...

Amicus builds business on flat planning fee

Amicus Financial Planning has created a template for a flat fee-for-service model that is gaining fans among planners keen to sidestep the current debacle on conflicts of interest surrounding commission-based fees. Amicus is run by financial planner ...

Daily economic update

Oil pushed above US$70 a barrel and continues to hover around this level as geopolitical concerns remain very high in Iran and Nigeria. Concerns over global supply shortage have also increased following reports that the Chinese economy surged by 10.2 ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... they measure it anyway, and if they could how would they adjust statistics from other countries. "We do not have a clear figure for the 'impost' of the Australian SG which we should add," the report stated. The views about SG do not mean, however, the ...

Equities lead bull run in super savings: SelectingSuper

The latest performance figures from Rainmaker/SelectingSuper shows investors are continuing to enjoy strong returns, particularly in Australian and global equities. In the year ending February 2006, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super superannuation fund ...